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When you’re asked to justify your decisions, you need to show they’re based on more than gut feeling. When you need to make your insights quantifiable, use competitor scorecards....

Whether you’re an online retailer or a brick and mortar chain, competitive intelligence can help you stay ahead of the curve, reverse engineer your rivals’ competitive advantages, and win new market share....

A competitive gap analysis compares the results you’re actually getting with the results you expected to get, taking into account the overall competitive landscape....

SWOT is a framework for identifying and analyzing the strengths and weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of any competitive entity. That goes for organizations, products, and individuals....

Competitive positioning is the most effective type of positioning strategy in marketing. That’s because it takes the competitive environment, and the spaces your product is best placed to compete for within it, into full account....

Of all the possible ways you can segment your market, there are four that have stood the test of time. When intelligently combined, these segmentation methods make for effective, insightful segments with high ROI and strong predictive power....

Data is now the most valuable resource in the world. But it’s valuable to your business only if you know how to use it....

A competitive landscape analysis analyzes your entire competitive environment to give you a comprehensive overview of your industry....

My guest today is Aaron Stillman, VP of Product Marketing and Education at AB Tasty. Aaron cut his teeth in competitive intelligence back when he was Director of Product Marketing at Healthx. Now he's running the whole show at AB Tasty, a maker of software that optimizes the customer experience....

Routinely conduct a market opportunity analysis. This can be one of those tricky tasks you perform just often enough to need some direction on, but not so often enough to feel compelled to establish a process for....

Not every business has the resources to throw behind a global marketing campaign. Whether your business is large or small, resource-rich or on a budget, sometimes a niche competitive advantage is the best fit....

What we can learn about product-led and community-led growth strategies from a $10bn SaaS startup....

Into the Fray host, Erik Mansur chats with Jennifer Roberts, Director of Market Strategy at ServiceTitan, on syncing up your CI stakeholders....

Working to gain competitive insight keeps you ahead of the competition, enabling you to defend and sustain your competitive advantage....

Ryan Law, VP of content at Animalz, is an authority on all things content marketing. We hear from the other side of the competitive intelligence transaction how Ryan receives and internalizes insights about rival solutions and how he uses that data to his advantage....